A wide-ranging collaboration of researchers will develop, improve and deploy tools to support globally-encompassing, grass-roots, community-based research networks studying lake and coral reef ecosystems. They will build cyber- and social infrastructures of sensors, scientists, streaming data and sharing, developing tools with ease of deployment, robustness and stability to enable easily accessed, networked, collaborative ecological science on an international scale. In the process, innovative research will be conducted.
The University of California San Diego (UCSD), UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), the University of Wisconsin, State University of New York, Binghamton (SUNY) and the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC, in Taiwan) are the partners in this three-year, nearly $2 million project, which will be housed in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
"This project will not only help develop infrastructure for sensor networks on coral reefs, it will also play a big role in building the scientific community of users," said UCSB's Sally Holbrook, lead researcher of the Coral Reef Ecological Observatory Network (CREON). "The data that scientists will be able to share will be of critical importance to our studies of the effects of disturbances and climate forcing on coral reef ecosystems."
This multifaceted project builds on current and past work from several projects, in particular, the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), CREON, the Open Source DataTurbine Initiative and a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to the Univ. of Wisconsin to build the research agenda around networked science. They will also be leveraging the infrastructure of two Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network sites (North Temperate Lakes, WI and Moorea Coral Reef, Polynesia) and the results of an earlier project which examined how to scale processes, as well as the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). These projects are/have been funded by NSF, and/or in some cases, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with additional funding to international sites from their country's domestic funding agencies.
"This project allows us to glue together several efforts," noted UCSD's Peter Arzberger, the principal investigator (PI) of the new award. "It provides a concrete infrastructure for the first time to this distributed community, and allows us to move the community forward in the way it conducts science." Arzberger is also the chair of the PRAGMA Steering Committee, a long-time participant in Calit2 and has leadership roles with GLEON and CREON.
Computer network researchers are joining with global lake and coral reef ecosystem scientists to create and test distributed network infrastructure and data; in parallel, they will also build a personal, social network infrastructure in order to conduct joint, shared research.
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The University of California San Diego (UCSD), UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), the University of Wisconsin, State University of New York, Binghamton (SUNY) and the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC, in Taiwan) are the partners in this three-year, nearly $2 million project, which will be housed in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
"This project will not only help develop infrastructure for sensor networks on coral reefs, it will also play a big role in building the scientific community of users," said UCSB's Sally Holbrook, lead researcher of the Coral Reef Ecological Observatory Network (CREON). "The data that scientists will be able to share will be of critical importance to our studies of the effects of disturbances and climate forcing on coral reef ecosystems."
This multifaceted project builds on current and past work from several projects, in particular, the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), CREON, the Open Source DataTurbine Initiative and a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to the Univ. of Wisconsin to build the research agenda around networked science. They will also be leveraging the infrastructure of two Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network sites (North Temperate Lakes, WI and Moorea Coral Reef, Polynesia) and the results of an earlier project which examined how to scale processes, as well as the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). These projects are/have been funded by NSF, and/or in some cases, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with additional funding to international sites from their country's domestic funding agencies.
"This project allows us to glue together several efforts," noted UCSD's Peter Arzberger, the principal investigator (PI) of the new award. "It provides a concrete infrastructure for the first time to this distributed community, and allows us to move the community forward in the way it conducts science." Arzberger is also the chair of the PRAGMA Steering Committee, a long-time participant in Calit2 and has leadership roles with GLEON and CREON.
Computer network researchers are joining with global lake and coral reef ecosystem scientists to create and test distributed network infrastructure and data; in parallel, they will also build a personal, social network infrastructure in order to conduct joint, shared research.
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